8 babies!!!

tallaght01

Jaysus, some woman just gave birth to 8 babies in Los Angeles!!!!

Glad that didn't happen on my shift. Surprise triplets was enough of a nuisance!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/01/a-mother-has-gi.html

The story doesn't say what gestation they were. But I'd be surprised if they got to full term.

Ardscoil Ris

Jesus!

I'd say by the time the fifth one popped out the rest were bungee jumping.

sam34

:eek::eek::eek:

am quite speechless at this. (first time for everything, eh?!)

jaysus.

the mind boggles

Dr Galen

seemingly they had pretty low birth weights, not surprising really i guess. Like where does a lady fit 8 babies? there's just about enough room for 2 or 3!!!!

seamus

IVF or some other fertility treatment no doubt.

Anyone care to speculate on what causes fertility treatments to spawn such a large number of kids? Would it be a case of a woman who actually didn't need the the treatment, i.e. who could have conceived naturally given time, or is it just a case of standard probability?

Sherifu

tallaght01

seamus wrote: »

IVF or some other fertility treatment no doubt.

Anyone care to speculate on what causes fertility treatments to spawn such a large number of kids? Would it be a case of a woman who actually didn't need the the treatment, i.e. who could have conceived naturally given time, or is it just a case of standard probability?

Women who have most types of fertility treatment are at a higher risk of multiple births.

That's because the drugs stimulate egg production, so a few may get fertilised at once.

And if it's IVF, then a few eggs will be fertilised outside the womb, and then subsequently implanted. Sometimes more than one of them progress all the way to baby-dom

sam34

tallaght01 wrote: »

Women who have most types of fertility treatment are at a higher risk of multiple births.

That's because the drugs stimulate egg production, so a few may get fertilised at once.

And if it's IVF, then a few eggs will be fertilised outside the womb, and then subsequently implanted. Sometimes more than one of them progress all the way to baby-dom

i thought with ivf nowadays they "only" implant 2 or 3?
how did that woman end up with 8??

tallaght01

IN the UK, they only implant 2 eggs at a time, so you get loads of twins.

BUt the actual fertility drugs that these women are on, make them release lots of eggs, so in her case there's a good possibility that's what happened, or else she had a load of blastocysts implanted.

I don't know much about her case. Don't even know what gestation they were at.

But only 2 of them are ventilated, which is pretty impressive, and suggests a decent gestational age.

sam34

just saw on the news that they thought there was "only" 7 there, and all, including staff, were surprised to see the 8th. i guess when its that crowded in there it's hard count them all!

and they were only 9 wks premature...thats great going considering.

allsaintssue

8 kids...will mum and dad name them or number them?

I heard she is planning to breast feed:eek:

I still don't believe I could manage to have one child...and I'm a triplet so I think the odds of me having a multiple pregnancy are too high to risk!:D

tallaght01

Will anyone take odds on her managing to breastfeed them for longer than a week?

glasgowghirl

I'd say they'll all be tucking into a nice formula feed this morning.

littlebug

In fairness they're likely to be tube fed for quite a few weeks. There's no reason why she wouldn't be able to express milk for those weeks. As for actually feeding 8 of them... **shudders"":eek: